Artificial Intelligence and Public Health, BS (Boston)
Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston131 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source
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Fundamental Courses
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All students can take a self-assessment to attempt to place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001. Students who place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001 will instead substitute 4-5 semester hours of CS, CY, or DS coursework at the 3000 level or higher not otherwise required in the degree.
- CS 1800 — Discrete Structures
- All of:
- All of:
- CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
- DS 3500 — Advanced Programming with Data
Artificial Intelligence Foundations
- DS 3000 — Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
- DS 4200 — Information Presentation and Visualization
- DS 4300 — Large-Scale Information Storage and Retrieval
- DS 4400 — Machine Learning
Introduction to College
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Complete the following in alignment with your home college:
- Choose 1 semester hours from:
Ethics
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Complete one of the following:
Mathematics
Statistics
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Complete one of the following:
- One of:
Professional Development
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Complete the following in alignment with your home college:
- Choose 1 semester hours from:
Public Health Core Courses
- One of:
- One of:
- One of:
- PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
- PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health
- PHTH 4202 — Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health
- PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning
Science Requirement
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Biology
Complete one of the following options:
Option 1
Option 2
- One of:
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Psychology
- PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology
Public Health Social Science Requirement
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Introductory Course
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
- ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
- COMM 1225 — Communication Theory
- ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
- ENGL 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
- HUSV 1101 — Social Change and Human Services
- INTL 1101 — Globalization and International Affairs
- PHIL 1101 — Introduction to Philosophy
- POLS 1160 — International Relations
- SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology
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Upper-Level Course
Complete one of the following:
Society and Behavior
Globalization and Global Health
Environmental Health and Climate Change
Law, Policy, and Human Rights
Healthcare Administration and Management
- One of:
- ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
- COMM 3201 — Health Communication
- COMM 4102 — Health Communication Campaigns
- CRIM 3040 — Psychology of Crime
- HLTH 5280 — The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society
- PHTH 5222 — Health Advocacy
- PSYC 3402 — Social Psychology
- PSYC 3404 — Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 3450 — Learning and Motivation
- SOCL 3241 — Violence and Society
- SOCL 3441 — Sociology of Health and Illness
- SOCL 4520 — Race, Class, and Gender
- AFCS 3424 — Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
- ECON 3404 — International Food Policy
- One of:
- INTL 3400 — International Conflict and Negotiation
- PHTH 3717 — Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future
- PHTH 5230 — Global Health
- POLS 3487 — Politics of Developing Nations
- COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
- ECON 3423 — Environmental Economics
- One of:
- PHTH 5214 — Environmental Health
- PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
- ECON 3424 — Law and Economics
- PHIL 5001 — Global Justice
- PHIL 5002 — Ethics and Public Policy
- POLS 3307 — Public Policy and Administration
- ECON 3413 — Health Economics and Healthcare Policy
- MGMT 3340 — Healthcare Management, Innovation, and Design
- ORGB 3201 — Organizational Behavior
- PHTH 4511 — Healthcare Management
- PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
- PHTH 5234 — Economic Perspectives on Health Policy
College Writing
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
- One of:
Integrative Requirement
- DS 4420 — Advanced Machine Learning
General Electives
20 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete 20 semester hours of general electives.
Substitutions
Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:
- ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
- ENGW 3302 ↔ ENGW 3306 (tier C)
- INTL 5100 ↔ PPUA 5100 (tier B)
- MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1341 (tier C)
Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under artificial-intelligence-and-public-health-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.